Sustaining General Practice:

Community Education Provider

Network

Spring Symposium
Thursday 17 March 2016

Victoria Fennell, Amanda Lyes and Janet Rutherford

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 Who we are

Victoria Fennell Amanda Lyes Janet Rutherford

Project Lead Chief Corporate Services Associate GP Dean for
West Suffolk CEPN Officer Suffolk
Ipswich and East & West
Suffolk CCGs
 Workshop Objectives

The workshop objectives are:

• To raise awareness of the Community Education Provider Network

Pilot in West Suffolk

• To share our experiences

• To explore the different leadership styles needed

to successfully run a project
 Background
Community Education Provider Network (CEPN) definition:
A group of primary care providers who share and coordinate workforce training
placements and undertake multidisciplinary education to develop the existing
workforce.

• Health Education England (HEE) recognises the workforce challenges in

primary care and the need for a wider multi-professional clinical
workforce. The introduction of Community Education Provider Networks
(CEPNs) is the start of that development.

• HEE have established 3 pilot sites; West Suffolk, Great Yarmouth &
Waveney and Essex.
 Background
West Suffolk
• Professor John Howard invited bids for a share of the national money to
set up a CEPN Pilot site and asked West Suffolk if they were interested.

• Ross Collett, Ed Garratt and Dr Janet Rutherford developed the bid .

• The overall vision is that the West Suffolk CEPN would be the first step
towards developing one of the first ‘Learning and Teaching systems’ in
the NHS – which makes the pilot unique.

Discussion:

What leadership skills are

required to submit a bid?
 Background
West Suffolk
• 24 practices Discussion:

• Strong GP training network What leadership skills are

required to successfully
• Traditional Style of Practice Nursing implement an Integrated Care
compared to East Suffolk Organisation?

• Starting to have recruitment challenges

• West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group have developed an

Integrated Care Organisation shadow group involving primary care,
secondary care and adult social care which will look at a
more integrated approach to commissioning.
 West Suffolk CEPN
Steering Group
• First working group meeting late August 2015

• Decision to concentrate on increasing pre-reg nursing placements

• Membership includes CCG, Federation, UCS, local GPs, practice

managers, lay rep and Norfolk & Suffolk Workforce Partnership

• Project officer appointed in October 2015

• Health Education England has provided £28,000 for the first nine months of
operation with the intention of funding the project for a further year
thereafter.
 West Suffolk CEPN
Workstreams
• Upskill existing staff through the Foundations in Primary Nursing and Community
Nursing Module

• Pilot Pre-Reg student placements in Primary Care

• Increase mentorship capacity in West Suffolk

• Raise awareness of careers in Primary Care

Discussion 1: Discussion 2:

What leadership skills are What management skills are

required to successfully required to successfully
implement these workstreams? implement these workstreams?
 West Suffolk CEPN
Pre reg Student Placements
• Hub and spoke model with the hub practice providing the management and
coordination and possibly holding the contract on behalf of all the providers
within their CEPN

Discussion:

How would you lead this model

in a practice?

Hub and spoke model

 West Suffolk CEPN
Work undertaken to date:
•UCS & GP tutor facilitated a focus group with student nurses to explore
attitudes to primary care nursing

•Presented at CCG-wide GP evening meeting in late September

•Gradual canvassing of interest

•The Steering Group have used existing networks to identify number of

current nurse mentors

•UCS and the Norfolk & Suffolk Workforce Partnership developed

Foundation module in Primary Nursing and Community Nursing

•Plan to develop series of modules building on experience

•Project Brief and Action Plan presented to meeting in January

Any Questions?
Thank you for listening